Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-20
TRADE NOTES.

moved at once from hOcneStei, y. l., 10
Bradford, Pa. The shops will employ not
less than 800 men.
The steel boiler plates for the boilers OF
the six boats ordered by the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad will be
10. 81 inches gauge and II feet by II feet 6
inches.
All local assemblies of bookbinders are
notified TO send delegates, one for each 90
members or majority fraction thereof, to a
convention to be held in New York city on
December nth, for the purpose Of forming
a national assembly.
Business at the Michigan car works, De
troit, the pipe foundry and the car wheel
works, is on the increase, and the cOmpa'
MES have orders on hand to keep the men
employed all winter. The pay roll at the
car works for September was Sl09, 600, or
So, 900 more than for August.
All local assemblies composed of cigar
makers in the United States and Canada
are notified to send one delegate for each
100 members or majority fraction thereof,
to a convention to be held in Philadelphia
ON December 10th, for the purpose OffOrm-
ing q National Trades Assembly.
The Decatur, Ala, Car Wheel aud Car
Spring Co, capital stock 500, 900, has
been organized with Z. Stanley Mitchell,
of Milwaukee, Wis as President; f. 7.
Tippett, Vice President, and Il. NJ. Me
Cullough, Secretary and Treasurer. The
works are to be moved to Decatur from
Milwaukee.
The shoe manufacturers of Philadelphia
endeavored to break the strike OF their en-
~plUyees, which has existed for several
weeks, by opening their factories on Mon
day last as free shops, no discrimination
being made for or against applicants for
work because they do or do not belong 10
an organization. None Of the hauds, how
ever put in an appearance at the shops.
As the conditions under which the shops
were opened permit the employment Of
other than Knights of Labor, it is doubt
ful whether the strikers will accept the
terms.
The Pike Manufacturing Company Of
Ulyerhill, Massachusetts,, has received au
order from Europe for twelve carloads Of
whctStOnes.
II is reported in iron circles that with
the opening of the spring another rolling
mill will be added TO the industrial ham
let OF Struthers, U.
The Canton Steam Pump Company,
with 4 capital of $iO,0 00, has been incor-
porated 1T Canton, Ohio, by K. A. Miller
and others.
The Youngstown Rolling Mill Company
has found it necessary 10 erect another
large warehouse, and work will be COM
menced upon it the coming week.
The furnaces of Kahtsdin Charcoal Iron
Company, at Bangor, Me, was pulled
down and rebuilt in four weeks, something
unprecedented, and is in blast again.
The Lsuz Wire Nail Company, of Bel
laire, ILL.,, nave eleven machiues and have
a demand for all the nails made. More
machines have been ordered, and there Is
talk OF eularging the building.
The Windsor Locks Steel Company have
run night and day for nearly n year past,
except when obliged to shut down on ac-
count of the condition of the river. They
are making principally tack plate, cutlery
and armoT steel.
Arrangements have been perfected by the
officers OF the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
bury Railroad Company for the removal Of
the company's shops from Rochester, n.
Y, to Cory, Pa The shops give employ
ment to about 500 men.
The American Special Machine Company
is the name OF a new corporation, with a
| capital stock OF 500, coo. organized at Am
sterdam, and of which Hon. Titus Saeard
was elected president. The company will
manufacture sewing machines.
The Butler, Pa, Times says the first
sheet of glass made by the Standard Plate
Glass Company, of that place, is in the
window OF a drug store there, having been
put in only a few days ago. 1t is AS
inches high by ~ wide, and is wonderfully
pure aud clear.
A manufacturer says Il think it would
he a good thing 10 abandon all repairs for
| stoves which are no longer profitable to
make. / should be glad to see them 90.
At all events, | would have nothing but
fre-box repairs for anything older than
| 1870"
The Continental Steel Car-Wheel Com
| pauy has been organized at Norristown,
for the manufacture OF rolled steel car
wheels. The manufacture Of steel car
wheels has not been attempted as yet, but
according to the statements of those utter
ested in this new enterprise the project Is
entirely feasible.
The Duquesne Steel Works, some twelve
miles up the Mouongahela river, will be
gin operations December l with sixty men
and will produce 100 tons of pipe per
week. The product will chiefly be steel
boiler-tubes and lap-welded wrought-iron
tubes. Two bending and a welding furnace
will be erected.
The buildings of the East Buffalo Iron
Works will be completed before the LIST Of
January. The main building will be 81
xS25 feet; machinery building, 50N150;
cupola building, 35x52, and bo~iler-house,
4Oxs2. A 2S-foot crane in the main build
ing will enable the company to handle the
largest castings.
A dispatch from Hancock, Mich, says;
The news that the copper smelling work:
at Detroit will entirely close down this
winter is good news for Hancock, for when
il is done every pound Of copper raised in
this vicinity will have to be smeited in the
smelling works here, and the day is not fal
diitant when every pound of copper smelt,
ed here will be rolled and manufactured
on the lake as the Qseeola and Tamarack
Company are now preparing to do with
their product.
Terra Gotta lumber manufactured on a
considerable scale at Revere, in Msssachp.
sets, and is claimed to be ahsoluteF q
proof. It has been introduced in :
Of the large Office buildings recent
edi in this city. Terra Gotta can be
with edged tools; it is laid more ~
fhis Al